Re: Common sense government - an example, Comment 3

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1717571.ece

HeeeHaw - I learned something on theme time radio - Episode 25 - GUNS

Gene Autry's Cowboy Code

The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage.
He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him.
He must always tell the truth.
He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals.
He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.
He must help people in distress.
He must be a good worker.
He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits.
He must respect women, parents, and his nations laws.
The Cowboy is a patriot.

Common sense government - an example

"While agreeing there is significant gang activity in West Sacramento, the 3rd District Court of Appeal said the Yolo County District Attorney's Office had not given enough advance notice of the crackdown to alleged Broderick Boys. Instead, they served the injunction on only one low-level gang member. "



You know - the least the DA / Polic could have done was called. Is that really too much to ask? A simple phone call? To let them know you care?

Makes perfect sense.

Since they did not call the right gang member - gang members can once again congregate drunkenly with other drunken gang members.

Congrats ACLU! You have protected our Constitutional Freedoms once again by giving 2 strikers the opportunity to get their 3rd strike.

What are you guys really trying to say?

For those that don't know, Google AdSense is, by it's design, a content & context intelligent ad engine. It will analyze the content of an individual web page and serve up ads that are most relevant to the content and context. It will interpret keywords and phrases to match against ads of similar themes. It is actually pretty darn good at what it does.

It is a part of the Sacster blog site as evidenced by the ads to the left & top of the blog enteries. Given all this, the most recent ads this morning after Brad and Kevin's latest posts, have me wondering, what are you guys really trying to say...?

God Bless You Mr. Rosewater

'You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books?'
'No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?' 'I say,
"Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"'
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers.

So it goes.

Non-music / Off topic ...

I generally love W's candor despite his inability to deliver effectively from the top of his head, but when I watch this one of my feelings is that I'm watching the real Washington and the blather we see on "Crossfire" and "Hannity & Colmes" is the show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aNQZDAfEHg

27 paragraph comments or less please ...

BO

True Story

Hey Dave, Jim, and Brad - This really happened today.

I am waiting for an elevator downtown. Door opens, dude walks out - brisk pace.

I climb in with a middle aged lobbyist dude, and a 40-50 year old legal secretary type.

The stench is unbearable - one of the greatest farts in history.

We are riding to the 7th, 12th, and 15th floor respectively - dead silence the whole way - but I certainly felt like screaming "There is something in this room that no one is talking about"

I had the 12th floor - you should have seen how fast Legal Sec split on the 7th.

Anyway - props to you fart-in-the-elevator and splits guy - you are a great and true American.

I am signing off now - for delousing and nostril-enema.

Unfair observation?

All window washers by their very nature are hopeless degenerate perverts hoping with their every sudsy swipe to catch a glimpse of a coquettish receptionist picking up her dropped mail.

Kevin's POV - Sentimental patriotism is bullshit.

Whether this dude is Black, Muslim, or wearing tie-dye - he is a dying breed.

Someone who still thinks Iraq is / was a good idea - AND that the problems with Iraq are liberals and the media.


Man - I have not heard "the weapons are in Syria" since like 2003.

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POV = Point of View - Made me think for a second on that one.

Kevin's POV - Sentimental patriotism is bullshit.

jin·go·ism n. Extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotism.

The content of this video is funny and the fact that the content is delivered by a black guy in a sweater is even funnier.

Like the Iranian president promising to wipe Israel off the face of the map - in a sweater.

Only problem is that these Uncle Mr. Rogers are serious.

This video - which is actually a Toby Keith video in photonegative [surprised there was not a Ford logo somewhere in the background] is so devoid of fact or substance that I will not comment on any part of it except one - the death count - and the media's coverage of it.
He is right - they are doing a terrible job reporting the human cost of this war. No coffins - few mommas.
The federal government says 30,000 Iraqis. Some Agencies say 600,000 Iraqis [not all Al-Queda affiliated by the way]
Dead US Soldiers = 3,597 [12:00 PM 4/3/2007]
So - let's give the USA Government a total pass on credibility - let's stipulate that their numbers are accurate. 33, 597 people [soldiers or otherwise] have died as a result of this war. This is a factual statement - am I the enemy for saying it?

Personally I think the "liberals" and "media" have done a crummy job pounding this down peoples throats. Because all discussions regarding Iraq need to start with the acknowledgement that 35,597 people have died [in the LOWEST possible estimate]
Because any argument about freedom, honor"the right thing to do" etc - must include this number, and it must acknowledge the 20,000 or so injured and crazy returning vets. Let's say the crazy number is like 500 [I don't want the GOPers arguing over numbers - so I am lowballing. ] The injured number is 20K
Ask any CEO of any company in the world about a "project" and they will immediately ask "what is the benefit?" followed by "how much?" and then they will weigh "is it worth it?"
This guy does a crappy job selling "the benefit" and ignores the "how much?" - In fact - he says that anyone even asking "how much?" is doing the following:
1] Aiding the enemy.2] Not supporting the troops.3] Soiling the memory of the victims of 9/11 [which Iraq had nothing to do with - says the Federal Government]
Last, but not least - America overthrew Congress over Iraq / the handling of Iraq. Most Americans do not believe that a wise use of our Military is to go house to house in Iraq looking for Iraqis who want to kill other Iraqis.
The fact that this Congress is taking steps to end the war only means they know why America put them there. It certainly isn't because they think Federal cafe standards for automobiles are too low. Like it or not - when Congress moves to end the war in Iraq - they are doing the people's work.

Kevin

P.S. - The BEST lie in our speaker's presentation is "Liberals and the media are profiting from the war - so they secretly want the war to continue so they can be right and thus enrich themselves". To which I, as new antiwar blogger #324211233 say the following

1] Where is my freaking check?

2] Liberals and the media are the war profiteers? Ummm... I see.

3] 8 billion dollars of your missing money [fiscal conservatives take note here] say that the war profiteering scales do not tip in the direction of Sean Penn.

Last of all - a pretty famous passage from Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell To Arms-take it for what you may.

"I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice. . . . We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. "